Retired judge questions NAACP's quest for apology

9:38 PM,
May 7, 2013

Written by

Vickie Welborn
vwelborn@shreveporttimes.

Minden NAACP President Kenneth Wallace on Tuesday asked the Webster Parish Police Jury to apologize for the beating death of a Minden man 67 years ago. Police jurors took no action on his request.

And they shouldn't, said Graydon Kitchens, a former district judge who shared information about the recent attack of his adult daughter as the reason for his stance. Kitchens, who is white, said he was not minimizing the "terrible atrocity" that in 1946 claimed the life of John C. Jones and injured Albert Harris Jr., both black men, reportedly at the hands of a group of white men.